Painting from the Source: Awakening the Artist's Soul in Everyone

by Elena Oumano and Aviva Gold

Book Overview

Artist and therapist Aviva Gold demonstrates how both novices and trained painters alike can use painting as a means of ecstatic self-expression and personal transformation. 8-page color insert. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060952725
• ISBN13: 9780060952723
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An Eye-Opener!

I thank Aviva Gold from the bottom of my heart! This book really helped me to reach in to my "inner artist," without worry of any needless techniques that often get in the way of expressing my full creativity. Viva Aviva! Write another book real soon!

Read this if you've ever picked up a paintbrush!

This book was so easy to read, and so very enlightening! It brings back the joy experienced as children, in "creating". Aviva Gold has tapped into the human psyche through limitless and delightful expression in "painting from the source".

Wonderful

I really liked this book and had a great time during my first afternoon painting session. I look forward to a lifetime of painting! I never would have had the courage to just start painting like this. Go ahead, buy it, read it, and start painting too!

A safe, stimulating guide to reaching one's creative soul

Having attended Aviva's workshops, I am excited to find the same safe approach to reaching deep into my soul presented in her book. The directions are clear with wonderful illustrations. Aviva is able to convey a sense of working at one's own pace and comfort level while opening up to possibilities. I continue to paint and collage with abandon breaking through barriers of old shoulds and oughts. Thank you, thank you.